{"product_id":"rescuing-humanity-transcending-the-limits-of-mathematics-science-and-technology-hardback-9781487551100","title":"Rescuing Humanity; Transcending the Limits of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (Hardback) 9781487551100","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRescuing Humanity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTranscending the Limits of Mathematics, Science, and Technology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWillem H. Vanderburg (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487551100\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 May 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e384 pages, 1 b\u0026amp;w table\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 3.2 cm, 0.68 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRescuing Humanity\u003c\/i\u003e, Willem H. Vanderburg reminds us that we have relied on discipline-based approaches for human knowing, doing, and organizing for less than a century. During this brief period, these approaches have become responsible for both our spectacular successes and most of our social and environmental crises. At their roots is a cultural mutation that includes secular religious attitudes that veil the limits of these approaches, leading to their overvaluation. Because their use, especially in science and technology, is primarily built up with mathematics, living entities and systems can be dealt with only as if their \"architecture\" or \"design\" is based on the principle of non-contradiction, which is true only for non-living entities. This distortion explains our many crises.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVanderburg begins to explore the limits of discipline-based approaches, which guides the way toward developing complementary ones capable of transcending these limits. It is no different from a carpenter going beyond the limits of his hammer by reaching for other tools. As we grapple with everything from the impacts of social media, the ongoing climate crisis, and divisive political ideologies, \u003ci\u003eRescuing Humanity \u003c\/i\u003ereveals that our civilization must learn to do the equivalent if humans and other living things are to continue making earth a home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eSuspended in Language and Culture\u003cbr\u003eAttempts at Escaping Our Suspension in Language and Culture\u003cbr\u003eFoundationalism and the Architecture of Non-Life\u003cbr\u003eThe Technical Division of Labour and the Architecture of Non-Life\u003cbr\u003eTechnique and the Architecture of Non-Life\u003cbr\u003eTechnique, the State, and the Law\u003cbr\u003eGrowing Up and Living with Technique\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Our Physical Embodiment within the Relativity of Life and the World\u003cbr\u003eCan We Escape Our Embodiment?\u003cbr\u003eThe Great Cultural Divide in the Relativity of Human Life\u003cbr\u003eThe Relativity of Our Lives before Screen-Based Devices\u003cbr\u003eThe General Relativity of Human Life and the World before Screen-based Devices\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Our Social and Cultural Embodiment in the Relativity of Human Life in the World\u003cbr\u003eA Hidden Discontinuity\u003cbr\u003eThe Artificiality of a Culture\u003cbr\u003eScreens as Magic Portals\u003cbr\u003eGrowing Up with Symbolization and Desymbolization\u003cbr\u003eTwo Streams of Experiences\u003cbr\u003eLanguage Acquisition in Anti-Societies with Three Frames of Reference\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Living with a Dual Relativity beyond Cultural Embodiment\u003cbr\u003eA General Interpretation of Our Dual Relativity\u003cbr\u003eLiving and Constructed Entities\u003cbr\u003eThe Emergence of Cultural Mediation in a General Relativity\u003cbr\u003eFrom Cultural to Technical Mediation\u003cbr\u003eThe Economy, Art, and the Order of Non-Sense\u003cbr\u003eMaking Sense of Non-Sense\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Mathematics as the Non-Language of Science and Technique\u003cbr\u003eMathematical Foundations and Truths\u003cbr\u003eThe Emergence of a Secular Religious Daily-Life World\u003cbr\u003eScience and Mathematics\u003cbr\u003eDisciplines, Games, and the General Relativity of Human Life\u003cbr\u003eMathematics as a Discipline\u003cbr\u003eMathematics, Languages, and Games\u003cbr\u003eMathematics and Time\u003cbr\u003eMathematics and Daily Life\u003cbr\u003eMathematics and Education\u003cbr\u003eIs Mathematics the Secular Religion of Technique?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Human Knowing and Discipline-Based Science\u003cbr\u003eIs Our Science Unlike All Others?\u003cbr\u003eDisciplines and Daily-Life Knowing\u003cbr\u003eThe Known and the Unknown\u003cbr\u003eCulture and Discipline-Based Science\u003cbr\u003eScience, Reality, and Our Life-Milieu\u003cbr\u003ePhysics as a Mathematical Game?\u003cbr\u003eOur Metaphors for Space, Time, Matter, and Numbers\u003cbr\u003eScience, Religion, and Christianity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Human Doing, Technique, and the Living of Our Lives\u003cbr\u003eNaming What We Have Lost\u003cbr\u003eRecognizing the Symptoms of What We Have Lost\u003cbr\u003eAbsolute and Relative Efficiency\u003cbr\u003eEconomics as Technique\u003cbr\u003eOur Daily Lives and the Professions of Technique\u003cbr\u003eTechnique and Non-Life\u003cbr\u003eTechnique as Response to Relativism, Nihilism, and Anomie\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: Possessed by Secular Myths\u003cbr\u003eEndangered by Secular Religious Attitudes\u003cbr\u003eIs Humanity Truly against Enslavement?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595945439512,"sku":"9781487551100","price":49.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/rescuing-humanity-transcending-the-limits-of-mathematics-science-and-technology-hardback-9781487551100","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}